"I have a punishing workout regimen. Every day I do 3 minutes on a treadmill, then I lie down, drink a glass of vodka and smoke a cigarette."
"Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then."
"I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it."
"I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen."
"I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash."
"Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he's terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he's a terrific actor."
"And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it."
"Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script."
"I came here in 1974 to do a play, and then I went to L.A. I really like living in America. I feel more at home here than anywhere else."
"I don't have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don't know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don't know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don't think you need all that stuff."
"I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it."
"I have dual citizenship, it just so happens I live in America."
"I know that the arts are important. I'm not denying that, but I can't associate myself with all the claptrap that goes on around it."
"I like the good life too much, I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons."
"I love roller coasters. I don't get a chance often, but I've gone to Magic Mountain and gone on the rides. I love roller coasters."
"I never make conscious decisions."
"I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn't act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful."
"I worked with Lawrence Olivier some years ago. He was a great mentor."
"I worked with Steven Spielberg on Amistad... he seemed so very secure in himself that he let me do things."
"I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there."
"I'm always cast in these strange men... that's not me, really."
"I'm most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page... sunrise over the desert and masses of... a whole essay before you get to the dialogue."
"I'm the slowest driver in the world."
"I've got a great sense of humor."
"It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone."
